The Burning Wheel
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By Aldous Huxley 15 Apr, 2020
Though Aldous Huxley is primarily remembered for his novels, and to a lesser extent his essays, he began his writing career as a poet. While a student at Balliol College at Oxford, having been exempted from military service due to extremely poor eyes ... Read more
Though Aldous Huxley is primarily remembered for his novels, and to a lesser extent his essays, he began his writing career as a poet. While a student at Balliol College at Oxford, having been exempted from military service due to extremely poor eyesight, he was involved in several student poetry magazines. In September 1916 his first book of poetry, "The Burning Wheel", appeared. The 30 poems of the collection make use of traditional forms: all but the title poem rhyme (“The Burning Wheel” is written in blank verse), all use conventional meters such as iambic pentameter and tetrameter, and eleven are sonnets (nine Petrarchan and two Shakespearean). The content, too, to a large extent harkens back to earlier models, with frequent reference to Greek mythology and romantic ideals such as those of Keats and Shelley, though often with the ironic commentary that would become a trademark of his later poetry. Less
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Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 Nov 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives...
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